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Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1887-10-28
ssTravel Light"

AASuSe
A venerable old clergyman whose
wife died lately said: 1--WE lived to.
gether more than forty years, suffered
pain and sorrow together, bore poverty,
comforted each other in all kinds Of
hardship and trouble, yet it is strange
that of all our life, when I look back,
one week comes up before me most WV
idly, and is the most tender and sweet.
ut was week we took once for q
holiday; we went away up to the noun
tains. I fshed, and she carried the
basket. Everybody thought we were
foolish, but ali, how sweet it was! !
learned to know her better than ever
before"
In American cities there is large
class of persons who live to amuse
themselves, but in the country there is
still larger number who never amuse
themselves at all. There are men and
women in our villages and farms who
live solely to provide the means to
keep alive; incessant drudgery and the
perpetual friction of their minds upon
each other make their tempers irrita-
BILE, their Judgment narrow, and even
their religion hard and bigoted.
Nothing widens and lightens our
lot so much as travel" says Brunot.
ut is like putting windows into a
prison. We look out of our own mar
row life into all the chances and
changes of human destiny"
Travel does not, however, always
widen the life and mind of the tourist.
Arctic seas or African deserts have
nothing new or instructive for the man
who goes about the world wearing his
own petty needs and opinions over his
eyes and ears, like the man in the iron
mask.
II had miserable time," said On old
woman, whose son had taken her to
visit the Atlantic cities and Niagara.
Il couldn't get decent cup of coffee
anywhere.
Many fashionable American women,
who run over to Europe every year,
know nothing of Paris but the mod
istes; of Brussels but the lace shops
or London but the furriers.
A more pitiable spectacle even than
these purblind travellers is to be seen
in all our summer resorts, where count
less commonplace Blanks and Dashes,
who are leaders of fashions in their
own little towns, stand haughtly aloof,
wrapped in their self-importance, afraid
to make acquaintance with their fellow
creatures lest they should not receive
the homage which they think their due.
"Travel light, if you mean to enjoy
yourself" says DR.. Rupp, in his advice
to bicyclers. leave all your heavy
clothing, jewelry, and self-conceit at
home"
The sovereigns Of Europe, when they
wish thoroughly to enjoy journey,
travel incognito. Queen Victoria,
when last upon the continent, was
known only as baroness. Would it
not be wise for the great people of our
villages, when they go abroad, to as
sumo some such comfortable disguise j?
Or. wiser still, should they not rec
ognize the fact that this naughty aloof-
ness and assumption Of superiority
marks them as belonging to small
provincial circle? It shows that they
have not gained breadth and liberality
by travel or intercourse with the world.
Youth sCompa1eion.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1887-10-28

LIE Baltimore american tells the
sV''owlng remarkable story, which
~ 10ules from one Of the seaside resorts
s su reported that young lady of ex-
~ t"eAt family has developed species
u insanity Of novel character. She
~SS given lately q great deal of her
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1887-10-28

The weight of your signature may be
fscertained by means OF those delicate
fcales made for delicate tests in assay
ns They are adjusted to MILL
erammes, and are so sensitive and SO
hne that an eyelash can be correctly
felghed on them. You can write your
name on slip of paper with lead
pencil and then find out how much your
flgnature weighs. The weights are
he mere atoms of aluminium, not half
p large as the head of pin. The ma
fhlne is SO delicate that little dust
blown in from the street might affect
Is workings, and it has to be carefully
cleaned after each exposure. 1t is
made of aluminium, platinum, and the
pnest tempered steel. 1t costs as much
rs its weight in gold.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1887-10-28

The statistician at Washington has
his figures on the present population of
the United States disputed. He con-
cludes that our population on June 30
last was 59,S93,00O. By the census of
1880 the population was then so, 1872
$50. Now, during the decade begin
ming with 1870, the natural increase of
population by reproduction is known to
have been 22.7S per cent, or at the av-
erage rate of 2.2s per cent. year.
Even on the principle that the ratio of
natural increase is decreasing, as, in
point of fact, it probably is, it would
still seem safe to place the ratio during
the present decade as high as 81 per
cent. or 81 per cent each year. At
this rate the increase for the past seven
years would be 7,371,471. Meanwhile,
without counting the immigrants from
Canada during the past two years, the
gain from immigration has been $685.
002. These figures, added to the pop
ulation OF 1880, give present total of
81, 31S, $3.50. Even if the annual increase
is considered IS only 2 per cent. the
population would be million more
than the actuary's estimate. 1t is safe
to say, therefore, that our population
is ct present more than 100000. It
is in any event growing so rapidly that
there is no need of low class of for
| eign accessions.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1887-10-28

Scotsman in New Year show bit OF
urple at the coat lapel. This is the
istle blossom that has been showing
belf in the fields and by the wayside
several days. Just now the Fair
ont Park specimen shows q little ball
green with parcel of pickles, and
the top of the ball q little tuft OF
hrple Tear open the ball and you
I've head of thistle cotton. A month
Snce this cotton will show white, and
I'll be blown wherever the winds shall
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1887-10-28

fSENAroR spooNER, of Wisconsin, who
IS just returned from Europe, says
che entire French nation thinks only
revenge on Germany, and dreams of
Pthing but recapturing Alsace and
orraine. Boulanger has lost his posi-
Dn of the popular idol through too
kuch famboyancy. He made himself
laughing-stock almost before he
kached the pinnacle of q popular idol
lie Germans are as full of the war
'pirit as the French, and collision is
bevitable in the near future.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1887-10-28

CLEvERNEss is sort of genius for
fundamentally. It is the brain of the
hand. -Coleridge.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1887-10-28

IT is reported that Edison is working
pom an invention for the conveyance
electrical messages from ship to ship
sea, using the sen itself as the me-
tum of transmission. Sounds may be
Fansmitted through the sea to great
stance, and the invention proposed is
psel upon that fact. Each ship is to
l. fitted with On instrument analogous
J the ear of living ANIMAL sub
larine telephone, in fact, and it is be-
eyed that this will be more sensitive
sound waves transmitted through the
ia than are the ears of the sailors to
milar waves in the air.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1887-10-28

POPPING the question has its corollary
being questioned by the pop.-LoweU
Citizen.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1887-10-28

GEN. LoNGsTREEr is living quietly at
gainesville, Ga, writing book on the
FAR. AS he finishes chapter he sends
DC manuscript to Washington to have
VI dates and figures verified from the
(acial records. The General says
\ expect both sides to pitch into me,
md am taking time to be certain of
III my statements. Gen. Longstreet's
publishers do not care to have him say
Fery much concerning his book, but it
understood that the volume will Gre
lte much discussion and will be espe-
aally interesting to those who under
tand the technical details of the sci
nce of war"
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1887-10-28

A QUAINT old locomotive has Just
cen assigned to duty by the Illinois
central Railroad Company on the
Leroy and West Lebanon Line. It
|as one pair of drive wheels and two
fuck wheels, making only four wheels
III told under the curious little ma
hine. 1t weighs, with the tender and
tll equipments, less than ten tons.
twenty-five years ago it was stored
bway at Dubuque as useless, but the
lresent rush of business has created q
eccssity for again pressing it into the
ervice. Some of the old-timers in
ailroading may remember it as the
Vixen"
Maryland independent. [volume] (Port Tobacco, Md.) 1874-current, 1887-02-18
Why MATTHEW'S WAS REJECTED.

The Senate last week, after rejecting
tho nomination II James G. Matthews.
a coiored man resident Of Albany, New
York, rs the Recorder Of Deeds in die
District Of Columbia, adopted n paper
offered by Senator ingalls,, in expIua-
ton Of this rejection |; appears from
this paper which las been given to the
public. that Mr. Matthews was. on til,
9th Of March, 1856 nominated for this
office; that his nomination was rejected
BY the Senate on the 3ist Of July, 1886;
that on the 9th Of August, 1886. he
was appointed 10 the Office by the Pres
idcnt, notwithstanding his previous re
lection by the Senate; and that the Pres
ident, on the DIST Of December, 1886.
'cnt the name Of Nr Matthews to the
Senate for confirm ,tion. accompanied b,
special message to the Senate. giving
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Maryland independent. [volume] (Port Tobacco, Md.) 1874-current, 1887-02-18

The Jews used to bury their dead I'M
der the earth, and this seems to have
been the earliest in use. E,pyt en-
balmed her corpses. and the earlier
Greeks and Romans consumed the body
after death by fire.. the ashes only receiv-
ing sculpture. Subsequently in those
nations this practice fell into dlsuse,
It least partly, and then their dead
bodies were buried in vaults or Nam
bers uular ground, such as the Gaia
combs. In ancient Rome the lbodi,-
Of her most illustrious sons were per
mt.ed to be buried unburned. a. a
special mark Of favor, within the walls
Of the city The next step was the
erection Of churches over the graves Of
martyrs. Then cmperors aud kings
were admitted to sarcophagi within the
church walls The extension Of this
practice was the origin Of chsrchyarls
These, in crowded towns, becam} W
healthy and offensive, and sanitary
measures demanded burial without the
walls ofthe city. Thus grew the beautiful
res,ing-placcs Of the dead which ,rWiih
their trees, flowers, landscape gardening,
and works of monumental art, we ellI
cemeterie The word Cemetery By the
way. mean, slumber-plase, aud is Of
Christian origin.
Maryland independent. [volume] (Port Tobacco, Md.) 1874-current, 1887-02-18
NEWS ITEMS

The postofFice authorities are making
offensive experiments with a view to
connect the whole Of Germany by tele-
phone.
Archbishop Ryan, of Philadelphia,
has directed that the choirs Of Catholic
Churches shall sing no music not spe-
cinlly written for the church
The managers Of piers and freight
Yards in Jersey City and New York de-
clare that the new men suit them so
we'll that they will never rc-employ the
strikers.
The Secretary Of the Navy has order
ed that the following vessels-Cysne,
L,ackawanna. Shenandoah Wachusett,
Pilgrim. Tennessee. Powhattan and
Ticonderoga, be appraised and sold.
The hearse in which the remains of
Abraham Lincoln were conveyed to
their last resting place, was consumed
il the flames by the burning Of Arnot's
livery stable 10 st Louis few days ago
The London papers, commenting on
tie wheat situation, says that America
his the reins entirely in her own hands
Europe wants something like 2,0OO,-
600 bushels per week from the Atlantic
ports during the next five or six months
The stock Of English wheat is reduced
to 10, 900 600 bushels, against - ,0O0,-
900 at the same time last year.
Surgeon Charles a Siegfried, of the
United States navy, has returned from
Paris, where he looked into the Pasteur
system Of fighting hydrophobia, with
view 10 its introduction into govern
ment hospital in this country lie says
that medical opinions in France differ as
to the efficacy Of the NEGOTIATIONS, but
that the record of cases seems to estab-
lish the value of Pasteur's work.
A chimney on fire called out some of
the Baltimore fremen the other day -
When they reached the house one Of
them drew big pistol and standing
below, fred five shots up the chimney
Instantly the SCOT and fire dropped down,
and the fire was extinguished The
conclusion loosened the accumulated
SCOT 1t is said to be an old practice
with them aud has never failed
Montana cattlencn are greatly alarm
ed for the future, owing to the overstock-
ing of the ranges. Last year Witnessed
a heavy influx of cattle brought there to
winter Large herds were brought over
the parched trail from the Rio Grande,
and in their famished condition placed
on ranges already so fully stocked that
only a phenomcnally mild winter could
prevent heavy losses To make matters
worse the calf crop was unusually large.
Up to Christmas the weather was favor
able and all was well, but since then,
the ten pearature ranging as low as forty
below and binding storms, before
which cattle drift in spite of the cow
boys efforts, reduce the cutie in flesh
and so weaken them and to make heavy
losses, inevitably if the cold weather con
tinues.
Maryland independent. [volume] (Port Tobacco, Md.) 1874-current, 1887-02-18
ACTUAL COST.

Real value are not con-
sidered in our colossal cash
clearance sale. We intend
to close out every Over
coat, every Suit and every
Winter Garment before the
end Of this month if posi-
bic. Whatever you may
want in Mems, Boys and
Children's stylish and de-
pendable clothing ready
made or made to order we
will sell it at a reduction Of
10 to % per cent from our
previous extra low prices
and certainly % to 80 per
cent lower than competitors
ask. 1t will pay to buy for
next seasons use at our pres
ent slaughter prices You
can afford to buy before
seeing
Maryland independent. [volume] (Port Tobacco, Md.) 1874-current, 1887-02-18

Speaker Carlisle, acting for the tariff
roformers in the House, has written a
letter to Representative Randall defn-
ing the position of the tariff reformers
on the question of tariff reduction, and
particularly with respect to the bill re-
Gently framed by the protection Demo-
Gratis The letter while couchei in the
most cordial terms, expresses the entire
inability Of the tariff reformers to accept
the internal revenue features Of the bill
prepared by the protection faction Of the
Democratic party, and expresses a desire
fer much larger reduction in customs
duties than the bill contains.
Maryland independent. [volume] (Port Tobacco, Md.) 1874-current, 1887-02-18

An Italian physician has advanced a
new theory Of cholera and method of
treatment. t is that the peculiar mi.
erobes of the disease resident in the in
estinal canal and the bloc are DIES row
cd BY borax. He recommends the in
ternal administration of this compound
in doses Of seyenty-fye grains per day.
His treatment is based upon his obser-
walton that during the fierce epidemic of
lS6i-65 the workmen in seven ada
cent borax factories were absolutely free
from the disease carried off one-tbird of
the remainder of the inhabitants Of the
same villages His argument is, there.
fore, that borax acts as a specific for the
disease.
Maryland independent. [volume] (Port Tobacco, Md.) 1874-current, 1887-02-18
Ueatih Of me Presidents.

OF the earlier Presidents Washington
was the wcalthiest. When he died his
estate at a moderate valuation was worth
$500, 600. Adams was a poor man,
but Independent il his last years, thanks
to the good management Of his wife. =
Jefferson was wealthy when he became
President, but lost his property and died
insolycnt. His home was sold and his
daughter was saved from want 81 the
generosity of South Carslina, which
gave her thirty thousand dollars. Con
grcss bought his library, and with the
proceeds his debts were paid. All Of
his descendants are poor. Madison let'
handsome property, and was wehlthy
when President Congress bougbt hi,
manuscript papers, paying $4,000 fol
them. Mrs Madson's son, FtynC
Todd, squandered her property, aid il
a few years after her husbands Reatt
she was poor. His estate was vaIq da
$3.50 900, in 1916.
Maryland independent. [volume] (Port Tobacco, Md.) 1874-current, 1887-02-18

With only single vote in the mega
tive, the Senate passed on February 4th
the bill reported from the Finance Com
mittee to refund to the States and Terri
taries the $40, 900 collected from
them under the direct tax act of 1861
A little more than s., 900, 900 of the as
'e'sment is still due, mostly from the
Southern States, and this the bills remit
Maryland independent. [volume] (Port Tobacco, Md.) 1874-current, 1887-02-18

Senator Bcck's bill making it unlaw-
full for member Of either House of Con
grcss to accept employment as attorney
for railrood companies in opposition to
the Uaited States, was passed on Feb
ruary 4th, after the adoption of the
amendment of Senator Hoar and the ex
tension of Senator Dolph.
Maryland independent. [volume] (Port Tobacco, Md.) 1874-current, 1887-02-18

The President signed the Interstate
Commerce Bill on February 4th. o.
the commissioners to be appoiEtcd~it is
understood that one will be from tn
Solth. one from New York, one from
the Northwest, one from the Pacific
Slope, and one from the Western States.
Maryland independent. [volume] (Port Tobacco, Md.) 1874-current, 1887-02-18

On February LIST, the President ac-
ceptcd the resignation Of the Governor
Of Dakota, to take effect Immediately.
Governor Pierce at once turned over his
Office TO Secretary Mccormack, who will
act until new Governor is appointed
Maryland independent. [volume] (Port Tobacco, Md.) 1874-current, 1887-02-18

Don't stand on the order of going
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if you want to cure your cold.
Farmers and Horsemen read this!-I
find Salvation Oil most excellent lini-
ment among horses, and | take pleasure
in indorsing it as certain remedy for
scratches. James Thomas Franklin
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The House Committee on Territories
on February %, fayorably considered
tho bill for the organization of the Ter
ritory Of Alaska.
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In July last james + LEGAL, az an
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Both houses Of the Neyada legislature
have adopted resolutions d.sfraDebis;nc
the N9rmous il that State